Elephant Dung Coffee Thailand

A coffee bean mixture on the ground after an elephant feeds at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Care for a cup of elephant-dung coffee?

•1 January 1970

Would you pay Rs 3000 for a cup of coffee if you knew the beans were processed inside the guts of an elephant? Thailand's Black Ivory Coffee is probably the limit when it comes to going organic. Hand-picked beans are fed to elephants along with a mixture of fruit and rice. The beans pass through the pachyderms' intestines and are excreted with its dung. The process strips the beans of their acidic content leaving behind coffee fetches $1,100 per kilogram, making it the priciest coffee in the world!